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Never thought I’d live long enough to see this: An Arab despot has justified his military actions by (favorably!) comparing his campaign to Israel’s:

Speaking with France 24 [on] Monday … [Muammar] Gadhafi defended his military’s right to oppress rebel activity, comparing his crackdown to Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in 2009, saying that “even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It’s the same thing here! We have small armed groups who are fighting us. We did not use force from the outset… Armed units of the Libyan army have had to fight small armed al-Qaida bands. That is what’s happened.”